SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in a continuing escalation of tough rhetoric against Seoul and Washington after coming under international sanctions for its nuclear test.

Philippines mulls pullout of Syria peacekeepersThe Philippine foreign secretary says he is recommending to President Benigno Aquino III to pull out all Filipino U.N. peacekeepers from the Golan Heights following the abduction of four by Syrian rebels. More

North Korea's 'socialist utopia' needs mass labor. A growing market economy threatens thatIt likened the feat to the efforts of forefathers who fought against Japanese imperial forces during World War ... the U.S. State Department described the mass mobilization of forced labor as one of t...02/17/2019 - 6:20 pm | View Link

North Korea: What Happens if Diplomacy Fails?And Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ... of missiles towards South Korea, Japan, or Guam. Scenario two, Kim is provoked by the United States or its allies into responding. A war with North Korea ...02/16/2019 - 7:51 am | View Link

From comrades to assassins, North Korea and Vietnam eye new chapter with Trump-Kim summitHANOI/SEOUL (Reuters) - In 1966, Ahn Hak-soo was one of more than 300,000 South ... the state doesn't provide any support, I still look after the headstones because I also fought in the war," caretake...02/14/2019 - 7:31 pm | View Link

US Should Prioritize a Peace Agreement With North KoreaAfter all, there is ample precedent for the United States stationing sizable forces in allied states in the absence of an actual state of war — see western Europe, in particular. By maintaining its fo...11/5/2018 - 2:04 am | View Link

South Korea to probe whether North Korean waitresses forced or tricked into defectingThe 12 waitresses and their manager left a North Korean state ... told South Korean news agency Yonhap and other media that an agent from South Korea’s spy agency National Intelligence Service (NIS) u...07/29/2018 - 6:39 pm | View Link

Korean WarKorean War In South Korea: (한국전쟁, 6·25 전쟁) In North Korea: (조국해방전쟁); Part of the Cold War and the inter-Korean conflict: Clockwise from top: A column of the U.S. 1st Marine Division's infantry and armor moves through Chinese lines during their breakout from the Chosin Reservoir; UN landing at Incheon harbor, starting point of the Battle of Incheon; Korean refugees in ...02/18/2019 - 8:54 pm | View Website

North KoreaNorth Korea was formed after Japan relinquished its 35-year occupation of the Korean Peninsula at the end of World War II. The East Asian nation established its independence in 1948, splitting ...02/18/2019 - 12:54 pm | View Website

North KoreaNorth Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or DPR Korea) (Korean: 조선민주주의인민공화국, Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk), is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, with Pyongyang the capital and the largest city in the country. The name Korea is derived from Goguryeo which was one of the great powers in East ...02/17/2019 - 9:56 am | View Website

North Korea travelN Korea DMZ and Joint Security Area Panmunjom Tour from Seoul. After pickup from your Seoul hotel in the morning, hop aboard your comfortable coach and head to the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which divided North and South Korea during the Korean War.02/17/2019 - 4:20 am | View Website

Investigators on Friday were still trying to determine what sparked an explosive fire in a densely packed historic section of the Bangladeshi capital that killed 67 people and injured as many as 41. Officials offered differing views, suggesting that an errant gas cylinder, a faulty transformer